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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

#124: Reading, Leadership Principles, and Drift Sabbaticals w/ ET

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

ET is filling in for DC while he's wrapping up his sabbatical. We talked about the Drift Sabbatical program, why it's 3 years vs. 5, and how the company scales as the founders take more time off, how to set up systems to scale, and the power of unplugging. We also talked about the Drift Leadership Principles and how they set up new hires for success and help scale the company too. And we talked about READING! Why Elias hated reading and how he's addicted to it and his tips for reading & learning more. Use the promo code SEEKINGWISDOM when you get your tickets to HYPERGROWTH 2018 and save $500 today (just $199 for your ticket). Visit https://hypergrowth.drift.com/ to get your tickets today and come see speakers like Jocko Willink, Molly Graham, Chaka Pilgrim, Amelia Boone, Grant Cardone, and more in September. PS. The Seeking Wisdom Official Facebook Group is live! One place, finally, for all of us to hang out, get updates on the podcast, and share what we’re learning (plus some exclusives). Just search for the Seeking Wisdom Official group on Facebook. On Twitter: @davegerhardt, @eliast, and @seekingwisdomio

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up, everybody? It's DG. Before we get into this very special episode with Elias, he hijacked Seeking Wisdom while David's on sabbatical. He's back two weeks. I just wanted to, like, so look, we don't do ads on this show. I told you, but I want to tell you guys about something really cool that we did. And if you've been a seeking wisdom listener for a while, I thought it'd be

0:21.8

okay if I told you a little bit about Drift because I think you're going to get a ton of value out of it.

0:25.6

So one of the guys on our team, John, he just built this amazing new tool called Test Drive

0:31.0

because we wanted to come up with a really easy way for people to see exactly how Drift would

0:35.3

look and feel on their website without having to install any code on their website,

0:39.3

fill out any forms, or even talk to anybody on our team. You can just do it all on your own.

0:43.3

So if you go to Drift.com slash test drive and put in your email address, it's going to show you how Drift would look on your website without having to do anything.

0:53.3

It's really cool. No matter what type of business you are, you can can use it especially if you have a company with sales reps I would definitely go and check it out and if you do that if you go and check out test drive I will also hook you up with some brand new drift swag I'll hook you up with the t-shirt we got we got whole, we have so much swag that we're printing around here.

1:11.4

Everybody has crazy ideas and we do all these limited runs of t-shirts.

1:14.3

So I want you to go check it out.

1:15.8

Drift.com slash test drive.

1:17.4

Check it out for your business.

1:18.4

I'll also hook you up with a free t-shirt.

1:20.9

And that's all I want.

1:22.0

I want to show you the power of Drift because you've been listening to Seeking Wisdom. So go and check it out. Have an awesome day. I know you're going to love this episode of Seeking Wisdom with Aaliyas. We talked about sabbaticals, scaling drift, scaling the culture while the founders are out. Our leadership principles here and why he used to hate reading. And now it's his absolute secret. here it is me alias seeking wisdom see ya

1:46.8

it's d. All right ladies and gentlemen it's been a while since we've done this

2:00.3

version of seeking wisdom the core version it's been a while since we've done this version of Seeking Wisdom, the core version. It's DG, but I have, D.C. is still out, but I have a man we've, we've been, you know, who's on the other side? I don't, you don't even need an intro. Who's there? The structure for every podcast you have to introduce yourself.

2:18.1

My name is Elias.

2:19.0

Thank you.

2:19.6

That's why I told you to do it.

2:21.2

CTO co-Fand-Ref.

2:21.3

Alias is back. Ladies and gentlemen, round of applause. Elias is back. Filling in for the big man's shoes. Yes, the big dog. I was trying to get Elias. Like, I think the second day D.C. was out on D.C.'s on his sabbatical, which when he's back, we're

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